i think this is also why conifers are so popular for timber these days, grows much faster. AFAIK something like pine takes maybe 40 years until it can be harvested.

On that note i'd also like to see "basic" non-religious beliefs be more viable, it's always bothered me a bit how the whole religion system is basically just structured after the abrahamic religions and their history.
Like yeah sure lock me out of a "proper" religion if i don't go after it from the start, but that shouldn't mean my civilization is just filled with apathetic agnostics or norwegians who'll convert to 5 different religions within the span of 100 years like it's fast fashion.. You should at least be able to keep adding those teensy weensy bonuses every now and then and maintain some defense from religious pressure.

Let me play as dogmatic militant atheist ancestor worshipers dammit

also like, i feel civs already had a pretty decent amount of change just from new policies and religion choices? I would have fleshed that out more, using the systems to add more fundamental but still gradual changes to the vibe of a civilization.

Like imagine if there was more interplay between tech/policies/religion so e.g. certain milestone techs or just unlocking enough of them in a short time caused a "societal revolution" that lets you make some juicy changes to religion/policy. You unlock/use the atom bomb and get a choice to pick how your civilization should respond to this new concept: maybe you embrace anti-proliferation which makes both you and anyone attacking you take a hit to happiness for using nukes, or you learn to stop worrying and love the bomb which just straight up gives you passive happiness for every nuke you posses and using them makes your people squeal with delight.

again, that's not a fundamental issue, that's shit design to fleece you on money. It's like landlords installing self-contained LED fixtures that lock you out of switching the bulb yourself.

From what i can tell this isn't a problem in europe, there are plenty of replacement LED bulbs available.

steam iron manufacturers HATE them

sun exposure is like half the reason behind the stereotypical "old person" appearance, with excessive wrinkles and saggy skin. Go look at someone who spends time sunbathing, they start looking like a leather couch.

i mean, there's a whole thing where movies insist on basically every single actor being conventionally attractive these days.
It's something that stood out to me about Project Hail Mary, the government lady is violently german looking and that's fucking rare to see in big movies these days

have you tried different kinds of sunscreen? The stuff i use is just an oil (well, it's oily at least) that you spray on and rub in, it says nothing about needing to be rinsed off and i've never felt a need to do so, and it doesn't really have a smell nor does it feel any weirder than being slightly sweaty.

i see no actual reason why LED lamps should still be more expensive than halogen, that just sounds like companies fleecing you

i barely see the point of passkeys anyways, you can do 90% the same thing with a password manager which 1) keeps your credentials under your own control, and 2) adds another layer of security by encrypting your list of "passkeys" (i.e. very long passwords).

I think we're at the point where trying to identify things as specifically AI-generated is becoming too difficult to be worth it, i'd say just start generally filtering out things that aren't made in good faith.
I've been judiciously telling youtube to not recommend me channels that post sensationalized/inflammatory/etc content whenever they show up in my recommendations, and the algorithm has mostly given up on trying to brainwash me at this point.

My rule of thumb is that anything that isn't borderline fucking boring is probably trying to manipulate me, if a dry wikipedia-style description isn't interesting then i see no reason to bother with it.

can we please stop acting like the way the light is produced somehow magically makes it worse?
It's the fact that the lamps are ILLEGAL AFTERMARKET MODIFICATIONS that makes them bad. You should not be able to walk into a gas station and buy things that are ILLEGAL to put in your car.
There are plenty of people driving around with LED lights in their cars, you just don't think about it because they meet the legal specifications and thus look identical.